execute command in a new terminal

[koekkenmoedding]

I dare to add a new feature request:

I recently "voted for" the realisation of #3, adding my experience from the launcher in Ion/Notion as ammo.

Another golden nugget hidden in the Ion/Notion launcher, is that if the command is preceded by ':', the launcher will open a new terminal window, and then execute the command in it.

It is not necessary to trigger "launch in new terminal" with a preceding colon, exactly as in Ion/Notion. I would just like to point this out, since it may be tricky to make zsh ignore the colon during command/argumnet autocompletion. This no terminal/new terminal selection could be done in some other fashion. (...but I have to admit a colon prefix is quite slick.)

_(I have been toying around with the idea of creating a hack implementation of this. It would make use of a custom version of the zsh function accept-line, in combination with some "clever" way of telling zsh what part of that function should be executed.

I will spare you the gory details...)_

[pseyfert]

interesting idea.

so far the only approach to this from my side was (prefixing some commands with urxvt -e)[https://github.com/pseyfert/shellex-customizations/blob/main/50-alias#L5] … and … it seems like one only needs to get the order of operations right. (:cd /tmp ; mkdir bla; vim bla = run all in the same terminal vs :vim /etc/resolv.conf & :man resolv.conf = open each of these in a terminal).

but let me be honest: you can see # 3 is from 2013, there's a good chance i'm not going to address either of # 3 or your suggestion any time soon, sorry. 😓

[koekkenmoedding]

Yeah, I noticed that #3 has been sitting on the shelf for a while, and I am not terribly surprised about the prioritisation. Given that there already are shortcuts in Notion and XMonad for opening a new instance of XTerm (or similar), #3 as well as #75 can be labelled as developed country problems.
(Where I come from we jokingly call insignificant everyday trifles that privileged people get waaay too disturbed by, DCPs [i-landsproblem]. One example "These new ATM machines require me to insert my credit card with the text down, unlike the old ones, and I never get it right on the first try 😢".)